... quite simple and relaxed. Out of this orderly, composed fashion the Dionysian music grew, with its more complex harmonies and melodies capable of inspiring the creative production of lyrics. The ultimate match of the two is seen in the highest competency of art: tragedy. In tragedy the Dionysian and Apollonian factors serve to define and to perpetuate the other. The Dionysiac ... chorus and audience are informed by Apollinian representations of actors in dramatic scenes (of controlled expressions). The connection of the tragedy is made through the Dionysiac with the frame of Apollinian ...

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